Companies with the highest pledged promoter holdings

An analysis of pledged holdings of BSE 500 companies by Kotak found that pledged promoter holdings decreased in the December quarter. It fell from 8.3% in September quarter to 7.8%. The total value of pledged holdings was 1.98 lakh crores.

  1. Bajaj Hindustan, CG Power and Industrial, Reliance Naval and Engineering, JBF Industries, Suzlon Energy, IL&FS Transportation Networks and Fortis Healthcare had over 95% of their promoter holdings pledged.
  2. Pledged holdings decreased in Granules India, Future Lifestyle, Reliance Communications, Crompton Greaves Consumer and Bombay Burmah.
Company Jun-17 Sep-17 Dec-17
Bajaj Hindus than 100 100 100
CG Power and Indus trial 100 100 100
Reliance Naval and Engineering 100 100 100
JBF Indus tries 86 99.8 99.7
Suzlon Energy 99.4 99.4 99.4
IL&FS Trans portation Networks 71.2 98.2 98.2
Fortis Healthcare 82.6 98.2 98.2
Gayatri Projects 94.5 89.5 93.6
Jindal Stainles s 91.4 91.4 91.4
Jindal Stainles s (His ar) 87.7 87.7 87.7
Hindus tan Cons truction Co. 85.4 85.4 85.4
Max India 65.4 78.3 81.8
Gati 80 81.5 79
GMR Infras tructure 72.3 74.2 73.9
Max Financial Services 72.3 67.7 73.9
Siti Networks 64.5 72.1 72.8
Reliance Power 61.8 64.4 70.1
Apollo Hos pitals Enterpris e 67.9 68.2 68.3
Unitech 75.8 72.7 66.7
Reliance Infras tructure 69.5 73 66.1
Kwality 44.1 57.5 61.9
Dis h TV India 68.5 67.9 60.3
Coffee Day Enterpris es 58.4 55.4 57.6
Omaxe 50.1 51.2 56.5
Bajaj Corp. 49 50.1 55.7
Cox & Kings 54.5 53.2 54.2
Sintex Indus tries 55 50.5 53.2
KPIT Technologies 53 53 52.2
Himachal Futuris tic Communications 50.9 50.9 50.9
Shree Renuka Sugars 47.8 47.8 47.8

Here is an analysis of the companies with pledged holdings between 25% to 100%


The data in this post has been sourced from a report by Kotak Institutional Equities.